X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/d21c1b56724aac9900ce74cc3e7846551c524c6c..d2103c8ca5a37b85c1eb4ce2edeb95e347e5e27d:/docs/gtk/install.txt diff --git a/docs/gtk/install.txt b/docs/gtk/install.txt index 49271a473d..94071f15f8 100644 --- a/docs/gtk/install.txt +++ b/docs/gtk/install.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -wxWindows 2.5 for GTK installation ----------------------------------- +wxWidgets 2.5 for GTK+ installation +----------------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTE: @@ -9,24 +9,26 @@ IMPORTANT NOTE: mailing wxwin-users or the author. Preferably, try to fix the problem first and then send a patch to the author. - When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWindows you are + When sending bug reports tell us what version of wxWidgets you are using (including the beta) and what compiler on what system. One - example: wxGTK 2.4.0, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2 + example: wxGTK 2.6.0, gcc 2.95.4, Redhat 6.2 * The simplest case ------------------- -If you compile wxWindows on Linux for the first time and don't like to read +If you compile wxWidgets on Linux for the first time and don't like to read install instructions just do (in the base dir): -> ./configure --with-gtk +> mkdir buildgtk +> cd buildgtk +> ../configure --with-gtk > make > su > make install > ldconfig > exit -Afterwards you can continue with +Afterwards you can continue with: > make > su @@ -34,23 +36,32 @@ Afterwards you can continue with > ldconfig > exit -If you want to remove wxWindows on Unix you can do this: +(If you don't do the 'make install' part, you can still +use the libraries from the buildgtk directory, but they +will not be available to other users.) + +If you want to remove wxWidgets on Unix you can do this: > su > make uninstall > ldconfig > exit -* The GTK+ 2 case ------------------ +Note that by default, GTK+ 2 is used. GTK+ 1 can be specified +with --disable-gtk2. + +* The Unicode case +------------------ wxGTK has support for the new version 2.0.X of GTK+ since version 2.4.0. This means that wxGTK apps can now make use Unicode as the underlying encoding for all text operations. This is a very fundamental change and will need time -to stabilize, so be careful. Anyways, after installing a recent version of GTK+ +to stabilize, so be careful. After installing a recent version of GTK+ 2.0, do this -> ./configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode +> mkdir buildgtk +> cd buildgtk +> ../configure --with-gtk --enable-gtk2 --enable-unicode > make > su > make install @@ -68,16 +79,16 @@ Expect problems. * The expert case ----------------- -If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWindows, -such as for GTK and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use -them concurrently. For this end, you have to create a directory for each build -of wxWindows - you may also want to create different versions of wxWindows +If you want to do some more serious cross-platform programming with wxWidgets, +such as for GTK+ and Motif, you can now build two complete libraries and use +them concurrently. To do this, create a separate directory for each build +of wxWidgets - you may also want to create different versions of wxWidgets and test them concurrently. Most typically, this would be a version configured with --enable-debug and one without. Note, that only one build can -currently be installed, so you'd have to use local version of the library for -that purpose. +currently be installed with 'make install', so you'd have to use local version of +the library for that purpose. -For building three versions (one GTK, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK +For building three versions (one GTK+, one Motif and a debug version of the GTK source) you'd do this: md buildmotif @@ -104,9 +115,9 @@ cd .. For any configure errors: please look at config.log file which was generated during configure run, it usually contains some useful information. -configure reports, that you don't have GTK 1.2 installed although you are +configure reports, that you don't have GTK+ 1.2 installed although you are very sure you have. Well, you have installed it, but you also have another -version of the GTK installed, which you may need to remove including other +version of the GTK+ installed, which you may need to remove including other versions of glib (and its headers). Or maybe you installed it in non default location and configure can't find it there, so please check that your PATH variable includes the path to the correct gtk-config. Also check that your @@ -114,7 +125,7 @@ LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent variable contains the path to GTK+ libraries if they were installed in a non default location. You get errors from make: please use GNU make instead of the native make -program. Currently wxWindows can be built only with GNU make, BSD make and +program. Currently wxWidgets can be built only with GNU make, BSD make and Solaris make. Other versions might work or not (any which don't have VPATH support definitely won't). @@ -142,7 +153,7 @@ g++ myfoo.cpp `wx-config --libs --cxxflags` -o myfoo * General --------- -The Unix variants of wxWindows use GNU configure. If you have problems with +The Unix variants of wxWidgets use GNU configure. If you have problems with your make use GNU make instead. If you have general problems with installation, read my homepage at @@ -158,11 +169,11 @@ but I tried... * GUI libraries --------------- -wxWindows/GTK requires the GTK+ library to be installed on your system. It has +wxWidgets/GTK+ requires the GTK+ library to be installed on your system. It has to be a stable version, preferably version 1.2.10 (at least 1.2.3 is required, 1.2.7 is strongly recommended). -You can get the newest version of the GTK+ from the GTK homepage at: +You can get the newest version of the GTK+ from the GTK+ homepage at: http://www.gtk.org @@ -172,7 +183,7 @@ at my homepage. * Additional libraries ---------------------- -wxWindows/Gtk requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with +wxWidgets/Gtk requires a thread library and X libraries known to work with threads. This is the case on all commercial Unix-Variants and all Linux-Versions that are based on glibc 2 except RedHat 5.0 which is broken in many aspects. As of writing this, virtually all Linux distributions have @@ -192,7 +203,7 @@ exit Please send comments and question about the OS/2 installation to Stefan Neis and patches to -the wxWindows mailing list. +the wxWidgets mailing list. In the following list, the version numbers indicate the configuration that was actually used by myself, newer version should cause no problems and @@ -260,8 +271,8 @@ to see all the options please use: ./configure --help -It is recommended to build wxWindows in another directory (maybe a -subdirectory of your wxWindows installation) as this allows you to +It is recommended to build wxWidgets in another directory (maybe a +subdirectory of your wxWidgets installation) as this allows you to have multiple configurations (for example, debug and release or GTK and Motif) simultaneously. @@ -278,7 +289,7 @@ you download wxGTK, it will default to --with-gtk etc. But if you use all of our CVS repository you have to choose a toolkit. You must do this by running configure with either of: - --with-gtk Use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK). Default. + --with-gtk Use the GIMP ToolKit (GTK+). Default. --with-motif Use either Motif or Lesstif Configure will look for both. @@ -290,9 +301,9 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build. --disable-shared Do not create shared libraries, but build static libraries instead. - --enable-monolithic Build wxWindows as single library instead + --enable-monolithic Build wxWidgets as single library instead of as several smaller libraries (which is - the default since wxWindows 2.5.0). + the default since wxWidgets 2.5.0). --disable-optimise Do not optimise the code. Can sometimes be useful for debugging @@ -300,6 +311,10 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build. such as Sun with gcc 2.8.X which would otherwise produce segvs. + --enable-unicode Enable Unicode support. + + --enable-gtk2 Compiling using GTK+ 2 (the default). + --enable-profile Add profiling info to the object files. Currently broken, I think. @@ -332,7 +347,7 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build. such as gdb (or its many frontends). --enable-debug_flag Define __DEBUG__ and __WXDEBUG__ when - compiling. This enable wxWindows' very + compiling. This enable wxWidgets' very useful internal debugging tricks (such as automatically reporting illegal calls) to work. Note that program and library @@ -350,14 +365,14 @@ The following options handle the kind of library you want to build. When producing an executable that is linked statically with wxGTK you'll be surprised at its immense size. This can sometimes be -drastically reduced by removing features from wxWindows that +drastically reduced by removing features from wxWidgets that are not used in your program. The most relevant such features are --with-odbc Enables ODBC code. This is disabled by default because iODBC is under the L-GPL license which is less liberal than - wxWindows license. + wxWidgets license. --without-libpng Disables PNG image format code. @@ -432,7 +447,7 @@ password) and type make install -You can remove any traces of wxWindows by typing +You can remove any traces of wxWidgets by typing make uninstall @@ -468,14 +483,14 @@ clean: This is certain to become the standard way unless we decide to stick to tmake. -If your application uses only some of wxWindows libraries, you can +If your application uses only some of wxWidgets libraries, you can specify required libraries when running wx-config. For example, `wx-config --libs=html,core` will only output link command to link with libraries required by core GUI classes and wxHTML classes. See the manual for more information on the libraries. 2) The other way creates a project within the source code -directories of wxWindows. For this endeavour, you'll need +directories of wxWidgets. For this endeavour, you'll need GNU autoconf version 2.14 and add an entry to your Makefile.in to the bottom of the configure.in script and run autoconf and configure before you can type make.